Perhaps things are different in New Jersey, but elsewhere in the United States, CLUBS ARE CHARTERED, NOT FIELDS.....

If you wish, I will fax you our club charter, front and back....there is no mention of a field charter.....as club treasurer, I have been submitting the paperwork for the last 3 years and have NEVER chartered our field.......

As noted in my prior post, the only paperwork involving any description of the field is in the SUPPLEMENTAL SITE OWNERS POLICY and that actually is an optional policy....some site owners carry their own liability insurance, like one of the local airports I use to fly jets ....in order for the SITE OWNER'S policy to be in full effect, the AMA requires that only AMA members are allowed to use the field, and that the Natiional Safety Code is enforced....

If you really think about your above quote, that would mean that whenever I fly my electric at a park, my glider or lightweight power plane at a local college campus, or my jets at a local airport, WITH THEIR PERMISSION, of course, and abiding by AMA rules, I would not be covered by AMA Liability insurance......makes no sense, right? Why? Because I am covered!! That IS the beauty of our AMA personal liability policy....it is portable and sticks with us whereever we fly.........as long as we abide by the AMA National Safety Code.....

Enough said on that topic.....A quick call to AMA HQ Insurance Division will add further clarification if you still don't get it.......or if you want to save a dime, carefully read the condensed policy explanation we all get with our membership renewal, or ask one of the JPO Safety Committee members for a copy of the Master Policy.....

As I noted above, until the AMA decides it is time to let the other shoe fall and starts revoking memberships, there is nothing to prevent you from conveniently using your AMA membership to fly at fields maintained by Chartered AMA clubs, while at the same time feeling no need to abide by the National Safety Code when flying your turbines at a field that is not maintained by a chartered club.....just takes balls on your part, knowing that your activities may well affect, at least indirectly, the future insurability of those of us who do our best to abide by the rather simple set of rules we now operate under.....

In regards to P-200 on KC.......old news.... Redman, Reid, and Marr have done it......not a good choice...Save that ugly mutha 200 for a 50 lb scale project, not a 28 lb ARF......I've had the chance to see David Reid and Scott Marr put allot of flights on their KC/P-200s before the demise of David's engine and Scott's plane......all it does is add weight, and make it more difficult to land due to significant increased residual thrust.....IMO, the P-160 on my KC, or Scott's previous engine, the BMT 120/160, are a perfect match, although you can extract essentially all the aerobatic capabilities of the KC with a P-120, if you are sufficiently skilled, of course, as evidenced by the demos put on with the KC/P-120 combo by Jason Somes, BV, and David Shulman.....


Tom